The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-12-08

hibftion amendment was concluded on tho
1st showing that 1878 votes were cast
for the amendment, 27,05S against; ma
jority against prohibition, 1855.
On the evening OF the 1st the Prohibition
conference In Chicago closed with mass
meeting ut which Ex-Governor st John
named General Clinton B. Fiske. of New
Jersey, as the Presidential candidate.
Ar Cincinnati on the lst bronze statue
of President Garfield was unvailed, the
militia and soldiers societies taking part in
the parade. Governor Foraker and others
made addresseA
TRAMP named O'Brien was taken from
the jail at Alamosa, Col, on the 1st and
lynched for criminal assault upon young
woman Of that city.
Ar Brookville, Kan on the 1st the Law
renee Hotel, six business houses and three
dwellings were burned, and foi,r men per-
ished In the flames.
An excursion of about $50 Scandinavians
from the Northwest. en- route to the old
country, stopped in Chicago on the 1st
The big gas wells in the northwestern
part OF Ohio were, 1t was reported on the
lst, losing their pressure and turning to oil
wells The news created CONSERVATION at
Toledo, where natural gas is largely used
fol heating purposes
FoRT SMITH (Ark) advices of the 1st say
that within four days seven murders had
been committed In the Chocktaw nation
Two YOUNG men named Daniel Mcclellan
and D. ]. Jones, of Straubville, b. T., were
suffocated by coal gas on the 1st
WHILE chopping wood near Paris. Tex,
on the 1st Clark and Moses Harrison
tbrothcrs) we're killed Two negroes had
been arrested on suspicion.
AT St Joseph. NO., the new stock yards,
comprising 44O acres. were opened on the
1st They cost 81 200, 900, and are said to
be complete in every detail
IN fight with whites at Cat Island, Ark, !,
on the 1st two negroes were killed and
many others injured. The unfortunates
had been arrested charged with insulting
white women, and ut the trial were shot
down.
In the Arensdorf trial at Sioux.City, Ia, on
the I'd, Byron Webster, la deputy revenue
cole ctor swore positively that Arensdo1f
was not in the Shepherd saloon at the
time of the murder. This testimony re-
flutes that Of Arensdorf, Hagenan and
Carson, by which an alibi was sought to be
proved.
AT Rathsay. Mimi two cases of leprosy Of
the most loathsome type were discovered
on the I'd
UNITED STATES officials discovered three
train robbers caves, full of stolen property.
near III Paso, Tex, on the ID
NEARLY the entire business portion Of
Eminence, Ky, was wiped out by a contia-
CATION on the I'd.
JOHN EDWARDS, an eighteen year-old boy
living in Darlington County, s. C., on the
2d ordered his father, Fred Edwards, to
stop beating his mother. Not being obeyed
he shot at him with gun, killing his
mother, fatally wounding his sister and
slightly hurting his father.
JUMPING Doa, the Indian arrested for set
ting ire to the Cheyenne agency, after kill
ing his two guards on the I'd, committed
suicide.
The validity of en- act of thu special ses-
sion of the Legislature of West Virginia, by
which Mr.. Faulkner was elected United
States Senator. was denied by Circuit Judge
Thore on the I'd.
At Mount Pleasant. :. G., Jake Slmons
(coloredD was hanged on the I'd for the muir
der of Mike Plottkin. Jewish merchant